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Quotes About Library

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
~ Frances McDormand
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are the songs that have been on my computer the longest.
~ Tom Junod
I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.
~ Martellus Bennett
In the wake of the British army's burning of the roughly 3,000 books belonging to Congress at Washington, Jefferson offered to sell the nation his own collection.42 There were 6,487 volumes in Jefferson's hands; in the words of the National Intelligencer, the library "for its selection, rarity and intrinsic value, is beyond all price."43,44 They formed the core of the new Library of Congress.
~ Jon Meacham
Ben cenneti hep bir çeÅŸit kütüphane olarak düÅŸlemiÅŸimdir.
~ Jorge Louis Borges
Yo siempre me habia imaginado el paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.
~ Jorge Louis Borges
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Paradise will be a kind of library
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Como todo poseedor de una biblioteca, Aureliano se sabía culpable de no conocerla hasta el fin
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again, There is a street close by forbidden to my feet, There's a mirror that's seen me for the very last time, There is a door that I have locked till the end of the world. Among the books in my library (I have them before me) There are some that I shall never open now. This summer I complete my fiftieth year; Death is gnawing at me ceaselessly.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I cannot combine some characters dhcmrlchtdj which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I, that used to figure Paradise In the guise of a library
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Andere mögen sich der Bücher rühmen, die sie geschrieben haben, mein Ruhm sind die Bücher, die ich gelesen habe.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. - Blindness
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
~ Jorge Luís Borges